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::::So, about that compact recentchanges... what's the decision? Nay or yay? — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 08:46, 17 November 2014 (EST) | ::::So, about that compact recentchanges... what's the decision? Nay or yay? — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 08:46, 17 November 2014 (EST) | ||
:::::My original suggestion was more like finding a way to highlight what good article(s) we have going on at the moment. The recent changes themselves are the best on their own page and I don't think having only the last few of them would be useful. My whole point in these discussions is that things get easily lost in the recent changes, so for example just having the last ten ones on the main page wouldn't work toward a solution (Unless for people who have never heard of the real Recent changes page, but in this case I doubt they would find the last edits really useful; if you want my opinion, in general the last edits are always pretty crappy ones). What I wanted was more like having some kind of an informal article of the week (with a ''very'' flexible timeframe, depending on what new Halo media is released and what new content is added to the wiki). Like a faux Featured Article nomination, with an election going on for like two or three days, and we quickly deliberate on what good articles were created or heavily updated recently (I don't like the word election at all, since it's just going to be some quick suggestions by people who feel like they got something right with an article recently). Even if that includes just two or three regular people ready to participate in this stuff from time to time. There wouldn't be a particular day for the election (i.e. We don't necessarily vote during the week-end for articles to be nominated for the following week. It can happen anytime when we feel like there has been good new content added to the wiki.) Potentially, the two or three good articles of the moment could simply get a mention below the "Featured Article" [http://i.imgur.com/jHoui2y.png here], in something called "Articles of the moment" (just a wild example). Also, whenever I'm talking of featuring some "good" articles, by "good" I mean something that is currently relevant in the Halo universe (from our real world perspective). For example, people may get confused about whether some new armors are Mark VI or GEN2, and the Centurion page could provide an explanation for this; this is simply an example, the Centurion page doesn't really have a lot of good info for this purpose. Current "good" articles would be those that are useful to follow what's going on in ''Broken Circle'', the ''H2A'' Terminals, or ''Nightfall'', just depending on what would be the best articles. It's essentially a more flexible system than the Featured Articles, in order to spread the word more easily about the good things going on on Halopedia. Featured Articles would be kept for the best of the best of the best, as usual.[[User:Imrane-117|Imrane-117]] ([[User talk:Imrane-117|talk]]) 17:10, 17 November 2014 (EST) | :::::My original suggestion was more like finding a way to highlight what good article(s) we have going on at the moment. The recent changes themselves are the best on their own page and I don't think having only the last few of them would be useful. My whole point in these discussions is that things get easily lost in the recent changes, so for example just having the last ten ones on the main page wouldn't work toward a solution (Unless for people who have never heard of the real Recent changes page, but in this case I doubt they would find the last edits really useful; if you want my opinion, in general the last edits are always pretty crappy ones). What I wanted was more like having some kind of an informal article of the week (with a ''very'' flexible timeframe, depending on what new Halo media is released and what new content is added to the wiki). Like a faux Featured Article nomination, with an election going on for like two or three days, and we quickly deliberate on what good articles were created or heavily updated recently (I don't like the word election at all, since it's just going to be some quick suggestions by people who feel like they got something right with an article recently). Even if that includes just two or three regular people ready to participate in this stuff from time to time. There wouldn't be a particular day for the election (i.e. We don't necessarily vote during the week-end for articles to be nominated for the following week. It can happen anytime when we feel like there has been good new content added to the wiki.) Potentially, the two or three good articles of the moment could simply get a mention below the "Featured Article" [http://i.imgur.com/jHoui2y.png here], in something called "Articles of the moment" (just a wild example). Also, whenever I'm talking of featuring some "good" articles, by "good" I mean something that is currently relevant in the Halo universe (from our real world perspective). For example, people may get confused about whether some new armors are Mark VI or GEN2, and the Centurion page could provide an explanation for this; this is simply an example, the Centurion page doesn't really have a lot of good info for this purpose. Current "good" articles would be those that are useful to follow what's going on in ''Broken Circle'', the ''H2A'' Terminals, or ''Nightfall'', just depending on what would be the best articles. It's essentially a more flexible system than the Featured Articles, in order to spread the word more easily about the good things going on on Halopedia. Featured Articles would be kept for the best of the best of the best, as usual.[[User:Imrane-117|Imrane-117]] ([[User talk:Imrane-117|talk]]) 17:10, 17 November 2014 (EST) | ||
:::::::''"[snip] What I wanted was more like having some kind of an informal article of the week (with a very flexible timeframe, depending on what new Halo media is released and what new content is added to the wiki). [snip]"'' We could introduce this "faux Featured Article" but this issue is how effective would this be in the long-run? The wiki has retired much "special content" in the main page in the old days due to the lack of participation by users. HOTM became inactive and removed, with Featured Articles randomised since nominations are becoming uncommon (well, kinda common with at least one nomination per month). We could instead use | :::::::''"[snip] What I wanted was more like having some kind of an informal article of the week (with a very flexible timeframe, depending on what new Halo media is released and what new content is added to the wiki). [snip]"'' We could introduce this "faux Featured Article" but this issue is how effective would this be in the long-run? The wiki has retired much "special content" in the main page in the old days due to the lack of participation by users. HOTM became inactive and removed, with Featured Articles randomised since nominations are becoming uncommon (well, kinda common with at least one nomination per month). We could instead use AID and feature the first few articles in that project page in the main page. Have another look and let me know what you think of it. — <span style="font-size:14px; font-family:Arial;">[[User:Subtank|<span style="color:#FF4F00;">subtank</span>]]</span> 11:45, 20 November 2014 (EST) | ||
This looks great!! Thanks for all the hard work. --[[User:Weeping Angel|Weeping Angel]] ([[User talk:Weeping Angel|talk]]) 19:27, 10 November 2014 (EST) | This looks great!! Thanks for all the hard work. --[[User:Weeping Angel|Weeping Angel]] ([[User talk:Weeping Angel|talk]]) 19:27, 10 November 2014 (EST) | ||